Vienna, November 16-18, 2007
Venue: Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf, Hotel 2 (new building), Europasaal, Oswaldgasse 69/corner Hoffingergasse, A-1120 Vienna, Austria
International conference, organised by the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), the Institute for Economic and Social History of the University of Vienna and the Society for Social History, in co-operation with the Renner-Institute.
Sponsored by Federal Ministry of Research, Municipal Culture Office of Vienna and Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft.
PROGRAM
Idea & Conceptual outline: Berthold Unfried
Friday, November 16, 2007
12.00 am - 7.00 pm:
Registration of the participants at Gartenhotel
Altmannsdorf, Hotel 2, Europasaal
2.00 pm:
Conference Opening
Karl Duffek (Karl Renner Institute)
Josef Ehmer (Institute for Economic
and Social History, Vienna University)
Berthold Unfried
(International Conference of Labour and Social History)
2.30 - 4.30 pm:
SESSION I (Notions and concepts)
Chair: Berthold Unfried
Johannes Paulmann (Historisches
Institut, Universität Mannheim): National, international, transnational:
Umrisse einer Kritik der transnationalen Ökumene
Comment: Jürgen Mittag
Christoph Boyer (Lehrstuhl
für Europäische Zeitgeschichte, Universität Salzburg):
Über Nutzen und Nachteil des Historikers für die Netzwerktheorien
Comment: Wolfgang Neurath
4.30 - 5.00 pm: Break
5.00 - 7.00 pm:
SESSION II (Migrations of ideas, standards and
practices)
Chair: Josef Ehmer
Kees van der Pijl (University
of Sussex): Transnational Classes and the Structure of the Global Political
Economy
Comment: Karin Fischer
Ariel Colonomos (CNRS/Centre
d'études et de recherches internationales, Paris): "Normativists
in Boots": Lawyers and Ethicists in the Military
7.30 pm: Dinner
Saturday, November 17, 2007
9.00 am - 1.00 pm:
SESSION III (Migrations of ideas, standards and
practices)
Chair: Johannes Paulmann
Sebastian Schüler (Seminar
für Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Münster): Die Transnationalisierung globaler Heilsgüter am
Beispiel der Pfingstbewegung
10.00 - 10.15 am: Break
Giuliana Gemelli (Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche,
Università di Bologna): Academic networks as drivers of European
scientific integration: the role of the Ford Foundation in shaping the agenda
of political sciences
Maria Mesner (Stiftung
Bruno Kreisky Archiv, Wien): Global Population Policy: Emergence, Function
and Development of a Network
1.00 pm: Break for Lunch
2.30 - 6.30 pm:
SESSION IV (Transnational knowledge networks)
Chair: Karin Fischer
Markus Kaiser (Department
for Comparative Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, State University of St.
Petersburg): Networks of Local and Global Experts in Development:
Epistemic Machineries in a Global Context
Comment: Berthold Unfried
Dieter Plehwe (Social
Science Research Centre Berlin, Department Internationalization and Organization):
The transnational neoliberal Mont Pèlerin Society network of intellectuals
and think tanks and transnational discourse structuration: Revisiting the
"Washington Consensus"
5.00 - 5.30 pm: Break
Therese Garstenauer (Institut für
Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien): Transnational
networks: Im/Possibilities of Exchange between Soviet and 'Western' scholars
7.00 pm: Dinner
Sunday, November 18, 2007
9.00 am:
SESSION V (Migrations of people)
Chair: Christoph Boyer
Josef Ehmer
& Annemarie Steidl (Institute for Economic and Social History,
Vienna University): Networks in the history of migrations
Michael Twaddle (Centre
of African Studies, University of London): Indian migration networks
in East Africa
Jean-Baptiste Meyer (Institut
de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier): Diaspora Knowledge
Networks: New Social Entities, New Policies
1.00 pm:
Final Discussion: Benefits and problems
of a network-approach to the history of 'Globalisation'
2.00 pm: End of the conference